The Association of Southeast Asian Nation
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations started in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand to have political and economic cooperation. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations declaration was in 1967 and formalized the principles of peace and cooperation to which is dedicated. The Association of Southeast Asian Nation is made up three pillars, which are the political-security community, economic community, and socio-cultural community.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nation member
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cambodia
  • Indonesia
  • Myanmar
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • Laos
  • Thailand
  • Malaysia
  • Vietnam

The Purpose/Goals/Objective of The Association of Southeast Asian Nation
The purpose of the Association of South east Asian Nation is to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region. Another reason was because they wanted to promote active collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest in the economic, social, cultural, technical, scientific and administrative fields. There goals were to collaborate more effectively for the greater utilization of their agriculture and industries. There objective was to maintain close and beneficial cooperation with existing international and regional organisations.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nation Structure/Hierarchy/Subdivisions
The structure of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation is the ASEAN Summit, ASEAN Ministerial Meeting(AMM), Post-Ministerial Conference(PMC), ASEAN Standing Committee(ASC), ASEAN Economic Ministers(AEM) and other ASEAN Ministers meetings, ASEAN Secretariat, ASEAN Select Committees as well as a number of official and unofficial bodies. The subdivisions of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation are the ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN Political-Security community, and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. Each Subdivision shows potential of hierarchy and the roles each subdivision has.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nation Advantages and Disadvantages
The advantage of The Association of Southeast Asian Nation is to have peace between the countries. Among all the countries in The Association of Southeast Asian Nation they trade between each other. The disadvantage of The Association of Southeast Asian Nation is the loses incurred by the alleviation of protectionist measures, reduction in the overall output, and it could also have an negative affect on employment.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nation local diversity
The Association of Southeast Asian Nation has effected the local diversity for the countries in different agreements and negotiations. They mainly want to look for peace between the countries in The Association of Southeast Asian Nation.

Citations
http:// http://www.aseansec.org/21069.pdf
http://www1.american.edu/ted/proton.htm
http://www.actrav.itcilo.org/actrav-english/tel.../asean.htm
http://ymun.yira.org/Association-of-Southeast-A...ns-(ASEAN)
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/wjb/zzjg/gjs/gjzzyh...t15336.htm
http://www.aseansec.org/64.htm
http://www.aseansec.org/74.htm
http://www.state.gov/p/eap/regional/asean/